TITLE: Informed About The Rainforest

GRADE: First

LENGTH: 60 minutes

CONCEPT: Synthesizing of rainforest information and personal experiences

RATIONALE: The students now know about the inhabitants, products, and problems of the rainforest. They will bring all of their experiences together for a multi-media journey through the rainforest. This provides the opportunity to visualize the things they have read, have been read to, and did activities concerning.

STUDENT OBJECTIVES:

• The students will listen to a guided visualization reading of a journey through the rainforest with sounds of the rainforest in the background. They will imagine themselves in the rainforest as is described.
• Following the guided visualization, the students will complete sentences to form a story of their own rainforest journey. They will entitle this story, as well.

MATERIALS: Rainforest Melody audiocassette

LESSON BODY: 

1. Explain that since the students are now rainforest experts, they are prepared to take a journey through the rainforest.

 

PROCEDURES:

2. Ask that the students close their eyes.
3. Turn off the lights.
4. Play the audiocassette of rainforest sounds (Rainforest Melody).
5. Read the guided visualization aloud while the tape plays.

 

FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY:

6. As that the students return from the rainforest by opening their eyes as the lights are turned backed on.
7. Show the students the template for their rainforest stories. Read each page to them, making sure they understand and can recognize the words.
8. Explain that they need to complete the sentences based on what they just experienced, hear in stories, read in reading group, saw in rainforest books in the class library, etc. Suggest that they look up at the mobiles or look at the posters around the room for aid if they need to.
9. Send them to their seats to work.

 

CLOSURE:

10. Ask the students to share their rainforest stories with a partner through paired-shared reading.